It is reported that Foxconn Electronics will invest US$10 billion in Chengdu to pave way for Chimei Innolux (CMI), which planed to build a factory with producing TFT-LCD panel. While CMI said their indeed planed to invest in china, but the investment was still under evaluation.

Radiant Opto-Electronics pure income for 3Q of 2010 was NT$668 million (US$21.72 million) with an EPS of NT$1.57, and consolidated revenues for 3Q were NT$12.36 billion, with gross profits of NT$1.1 billion, and NT$704 million in operating income.From 1Q until 3Q in 2010, consolidated revenues in Radiant totaled NT$34.62 billion, operating income was NT$2 billion, and net profit reached NT$1.75 billion with an EPS of NT$4.11.

Lately, the president of Brazilian National Confederation of Industry (CNI) Mr. Alcantaro Correa has led Brazil business delegation , exclusively came to visit Aeon Lighting Technology (ALT) head office in Taiwan and listened company profile presentation. During the presentation, all delegation members were impressed by the stability and performance of ALT high power LED lighting products.

German LED maker LayTec has ranked among the national 50 fastest growing technology companies for the second time at the Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 award ceremony in Berlin on October 20, 2010. The award mainly depends on the total growth in sales within the last 5 years. Because LayTec increased its turnover by 241% between 2005 and 2009, also belongs to the 500 fastest growing technology companies in Europe in 2010.

As the sapphire market became stronger, Taiwan quartz components maker TXC planed to develop sapphire and other crystalline products. It is reported that the company will establish crystal growth capacity and start production in February 2011. Also, wafer slicing and sapphire substrate manufacturing is in the new crystal growth processing operations. TXC planned to invest total NT$300 million (US$9.7 million) initially, with focus on 4- and 6-inch sapphire substrates development.

The Middle East leading retail chain, 'Harman House' announced that it has achieved the highest penetration for Samsung LED TVs in the UAE.   The company further revealed that LED TV sales constitute 55% of its total TV sales in the UAE, thereby underlining the growing demand for flat screen televisions in the country.

The municipal government office in Dongguan, China, has issued a "Dongguan to promote industrial development and application of LED demonstration plan". The plan proposed that some roads to the city street lights newly installed or modified as LED, LED lighting industry in output value reached 15 billion yuan in 2015.And six years to install 80,000 LED lamps.

Eco Depot has announced a World-wide distributor search to recruit key players for the LED lighting systems provider and its global partners in preparation for the unveiling of a unique LED financing and underwriting program for municipalities and corporations for 2011.

Taiwan's outlying island of Kinmen has installed a new system of LED lamps for street lighting as part of the county's low carbon energy-saving efforts. As the county government was awarded a grant by the Ministry of Economic Affairs' Bureau of Energy to finance the plan, Sixty-nine automated LED lamps were installed on a section of the island's Huandao East Road, replacing the previous sodium and mercury street lamps.

As Apple announced an upgraded MacBook Air,  featuring 11.6-inch panel, it is hoped that several manufactories in Taiwan would become one of the suppliers in the supply chain for the machine, such as Foxconn Electronics, Quanta Computer, AU Optronics (AUO),Chimei Innolux (CMI) and so on.

World renowned Cleantech group announced its 2010 top 100 Cleantech companies on October 14th, 2010. LatticePower has been listed in the 100 list, the top 10 of Asia-Pacific and one of three companies from China who shares the prestige.

Recently, Genesis Photonics started seting a third LED epitaxial wafer factory in the Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP), which could produce 120,000 LED epitaxial wafers every month and will complete the project in 2Q 2011.

Massachusetts Congressional District Congresswoman Niki Tsongas has taken a visit to Luminus Devices at its corporate headquarters in Billerica, MA.

In 2002, right after 9/11, eight-year-old Veronica Granite from New Jersey began a petition drive to illuminate her hometown bridge with red, white and blue lights. She had recently seen tricolor lighting atop the Empire State Building during a visit to Liberty State Park and thought the Bayonne Bridge should be similarly decorated in patriotic lights. Bayonne Bridge Lit with Patriotic LED Lights custom designed by LEDtronics, Inc.

GlacialLight, a division of GlacialTech Inc. and a global provider of PC Cooling, Power supplies, power drivers and LED lighting, extends an invitation to all business and media partners around the world to attend their display at the INTERLIGHT MOSCOW 2010, the 16th International Trade Fair for Decorative & Technical Lighting, to be held at Expocentre Fairgrounds, Moscow from 9-12 November 2010. Exhibition Date: 9-12 November 2010 GlacialLight Booth #: S51-52, Hall 7.2

Recently, CCFL lighting maker Wellypower Optronics’3Q10 revenues made a new record. The consolidated total revenues went up NT$2.27 billion, gross profit was NT$270 million with a 12% gross margin. Also, pure income reached NT$171 million (US$5.53 million), up 694% sequentially, EPS was NT$1.01, and operating incomer was NT$142 million.

Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corp and Panasonic Corp are said to commercialize their straight tube LED lamps to replace fluorescent lamps within 2010. Toshiba Lighting & Technology plans to launch two types of straight tube LED lamps, whose brightnesses are equivalent to those of 20W and 40W fluorescent lamps, respectively, within 2010.   Also,Panasonic  intends to commercialize its straight tube LED lamps within 2010.

Precision Paragon, an energy efficient commercial lighting manufacturer, recently developed an online retrofit calculator. 

According to the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) of Taiwan, it has worked out a set of draft standards governing intelligent LED illumination management and communications, and will team up with mainland China to jointly lead LED standards.

Rizwan Ahmad to Highlight How Smart Meter Technology Can Add Improve Control and Safety, Reduce Cost and Enhance Energy Management and Conservation Programs Recognized smart metering expert and Dialight’s Director of Global Business Development for Smart Grid and Metering technology, Rizwan Ahmad will be a featured presenter at the 2010 Smart Grid Electronics Forum set for October 18-20 in San Jose, Calif.

Luxury Lighting Companies Team Up With Leading Men's Magazine to Transform a Hollywood Hills Estate

Providing design engineers with a worldwide source for optoelectronic components, TT electronics OPTEK Technology has partnered with global distributor TTI, Inc.

OSRAM adds to its product portfolio of LED solutions for the airfield market

OSRAM expands its product portfolio with LED solutions for the entertainment, architainment and special effects lighting market. With Zelion H, the company presents a robust LED module for variable use in a number of different applications. Zelion H modules are particularly energy-efficient robust solutions for entertainment lighting. Source: OSRAM

Recently, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) reported that Canandaigua in New York was the first OLED pilot manufacturing site in USA. The pilot line occupied 140,000-square-foot area. The Universal Display Corporation (UDC) who had been given $4 million by DOE was a member of the OLED pilot project. Also, UDC, MBT, New York’s Smart System Technology & Commercialization Center (STC) were partners on the project, which leverages an $11.5 million investment from MBT, state government incentives available through the STC, and municipal tax credits.

AIXTRON AG has announced a new order for an MOCVD reactor from MicroLink Devices, Inc., USA, a company engaged in the manufacture of HBT devices and the development of III-V solar cells.

TESS, a Taiwan-based LED lighting leading brand, changed its company name from “topco energy saving system corp.” to “Top Energy Saving System Corp.” As TESS is planning an IPO in Taiwan this year, this name change is carried out in order to avoid public confusion between TESS and other similar company names. The brand name, TESS, remains the same. The new company name, Top Energy Saving System Corp., has been changed under the approval of at the shareholder meeting. 

It is reported that Taiwan and China vendors will test LED street lamps in Xiamen, Fujian Province and Guangzhou, by cross-strait standards for LED street lighting. Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) will assist to choose test sites, and two test sites have chosen, including Xiamen's Huoju Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone and line one of Guangzhou's Metro subway system.

Recently, CCFL lighting maker Wellypower Optronics reported hot cathode fluorescent lamps (HCFL) T5 light bars, in order to pay attention to consumer lighting market. Now, Wellypower had both contract manufacturing and own brand operations. Every moth, the company could produce 1.4-1.8 million units, which utilization efficiency was 70-80%, and package 120 million units, which may increase 200 million units by the end of 2010.

It's said that Taiwan silicon foundry giant Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) will license LED patents from Philips when its LED factory starts pilot production at the end of 2010. According to the company, it began the construction in March 2010, with first-phase project scheduled to be completed and tooled by the end of 2010 at a cost of around NT$5.5 billion (US$177 million). Volume production will not kick off until Q1 of 2011.